The monopoly of capital becomes a fetter upon the mode of production, which has sprung up and flourished along with, and under it. Centralisation of the means of production and socialisation of labour at last reach a point where they become incompatible with there capitalist integument. This integument is burst asunder. The knell of capitalist private property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar star of its policy, world domination, is a fixed star. About Russia

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.

Capital brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays the golden eggs.